NEWS: Items from the Morning Tribune, November 19, 1879, Blair County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JRB Copyright 2006. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _______________________________________________ Items from the Morning Tribune, Altoona, Wednesday, November 19, 1879 Dr. P. S. Leisenring in Omaha, Neb. Our former citizen Dr. P. S. Leisenring is as indefatigable in the right direction in Omaha, Nebraska as he was while he lived in this city. He is now and has been for the past eight months President of the Young Men's Christian Association of Omaha. When he assumed the position he found the financial condition of the association in a desperate strait, with a debt of $4,000, which has since been cleared off; and donations to the amount of $1,200 to $1,500 have been received. The association has taken on a new vigor under Dr. Leisenring's administration, and is accomplishing a good work. All of which the many friends of the doctor in this city and county will be pleased to hear. STATE NOTES. The school teachers of Mercer county have struck against the system of "boarding around," and the directors have abolished it. The increase of wages demanded by the miners of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company is fifteen per cent. of the present rate. Twenty-five acres of land have been selected at Ashland, Schuylkill county, upon a part of which the Miners' Hospital will be erected. "Never mind me, save my boy!" was what old Samuel Mosely, a miner, yelled while buried under a mass of coal with his son at Wadesville shaft, near Pottsville, on Thursday. The boy was saved and the old man crushed to death. A lumberman a few days ago found a hunter named Daggers, of Tobyhanna, lying by the side of a 418 pound dead bear, in an exhausted condition. Daggers had whipped the bear in an encounter in which he had used a large bowie knife. CITY AND COUNTRY. CASES FOR ARGUMENT COURT. The List that Will Occupy Attention on Monday Next. The following is the list of cases that will be heard at Argument Court, which convenes on Monday next, the 24th inst: 1. William Soke vs. City Insurance Company. Point reserved. 2. James Bricker's administrator vs. John Potter. Motion for a new trial. 3. W. Bell's administrator vs. Jacob Good. Motion for a new trial. 4. Catharine Fry vs. Mechanics' Savings Bank of Altoona. Motion for a new trial, and reserved points and show rule to show cause why verdict should not be set aside. 5. Joseph Young for use vs. John and Nancy Cunningham. Points reserved. 6. Joseph Baker vs. Kyle Orr. Motion to take off non-suit. 7. C. C. Stanberger vs. A. C. Lytle. Certiorari. 8. W. Hannigan vs. J. W. Dougherty. Certiorari. 9. Rule to show cause why W. D. Couch, assignee of L. Davis, should not be discharged. 10. Exceptions to report of auditor distributing funds in hands of Jacob Schell, administrator of M. Devine, deceased. 11. Exceptions to report of auditor to hear exceptions and make distribution of funds in hands of John Brotherline, executor of Henrietta Elder, deceased. 12. William Smith vs. J. Blumenthal et al. Rule to show cause why proceedings should not be stayed. 13. George W. Good for use vs. Levi Good. Rule to show cause why judgment should not be opened. 14. C. W. Taylor vs. S. R. McCracken. Rule to show cause why judgment should not be marked satisfied. 15. Christian Beyer vs. B. and Ellen Connelly. Rule to show cause why judgment should not be opened as to Ellen Connelly. 16. Daniel Piper vs. Brice Sell. Rule to show cause why appeal should not be filed nun pro func. 17. rule to show cause why Morrison's turnpike should not be vacated. 18. S. P. McFadden vs. Archibald McFadden. Rule to show cause why judgment should not be opened. 19. Dr. J. T. Christy vs. A. J. Bigham. Rule to show cause why satisfaction should not be stricken off. 20. Rule to show cause why order should not issue to S. P. McFadden, assignee of E. M. Jones, to sell real estate. 21. J. S. Charles vs. City of Altoona. Case stated. 22. Commonwealth vs. Joseph Brown. Rule to show cause why verdict should not be set aside as to costs. 23. Rule on administrator of Maria McFarlane, deceased, to show cause why they should not pay amount due the children of Catharine R. West, deceased. 24. James Madara's administrator vs. W. R. Madara. Rule to show cause why judgment should not be entered for want of a sufficient affidavit of defense. 25. Jacob Bollinger vs. Borough of Hollidaysburg. Rule on plaintiff to show cause why he should not file bill of particulars and statement of claim for damages. 26. Exceptions to report of auditor distributing funds in the Sheriff's hands arising from the sale of the real estate of Charles Knapp. 27. Rule to show cause why attachment should not issue against Adam Thomas, guardian of Mary Ellen Brimer. 28. Exceptions to report of auditor to hear and decide exceptions to account of James Stewart, guardian of Samuel L. Stewart. 29. Edmund Mountney for use of J. L. Metzgar vs. George P. Morgan's administrator. Rule to show cause why judgment should not be opened. 30. In the matter of the sale of real estate of George P. Morgan, deceased. Rule to show cause why deed should not be modified. 31. Leopold Firz vs. Michael Fisher and Charles Haid. Rule to show cause why Michael Fisher should not be subrogated. 32. Phil Irwin vs. Patrick Hickey. Rule to show cause why judgment should not be opened. 33. Union Hardware Company vs. Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Rule to show cause why costs of former action should not be paid. 34. Thomas J. Fries vs. Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Same rule. 35. Exceptions to report of auditor to distribute money paid into court by Philip Dempsey in suit. Tierney and Greevy vs. P. Dempsey. 36. Commonwealth vs. James Markle. Rule to show cause why attachment should not issue against defendant to enforce sentence. 37. M. Buck vs. A. Cowan. Rule to show cause why appeal should not be stricken off at costs of defendant. 38. Eliott Robley vs. Union Horse Insurance Company. Rule to show cause why service of writ should not be set aside. 39. Citation to widow, heir and guardian in estate of Joseph Cassiday, deceased, to show why specific performance of contract with E. Cassiday should not be decreed. 40. Rule to show cause why attachment should not issue against John Trout, guardian of minor children of A. McAchran. 41. Rule to show cause why Henry Taylor, executor of Michael Bowers, deceased, should not be discharged. 42. Sebastian Abbas vs. Joseph Myer. Rule to show cause why judgment should not be opened. 43. Rule to show cause and answer of guardian of Lewis McGlathery. 44. Rule on F. P. Tierney, Esq., to show cause why he should not pay over money collected for Charles Raugh. 45. A. M. Irwine vs. P. Dempsey. Rule to show cause why judgment should not be entered in this case because of failure of defendant to file affidavit of defense with transcript. 46. J. I. Brotherline vs. Dr. S. W. Boyer. Rule to show cause why appeal should not be stricken off for want of a sufficient affidavit of defense. 47. W. M. Pearson's use vs. M. C. Dick. Exceptions to acknowledgement of Sheriff's deed. 48. J. H. Wilson vs. Richard and F. A. Shantz. Rule to show cause why credits as claimed should not be allowed. 49. Rule to show cause why M. Alexander, assignee of John Geesey, should not be discharged. 50. Patrick McGuire vs. Thomas Burgoon's administrator. Rule to show cause why reassignment should not be stricken from record. 51. Rule to show cause why John Brothy, administrator of John Groome, deceased, should not be discharged. 52. Rule to show cause why A. Wilson, committee? Of Mary A. Burtnett, should not be discharged and commission suspended and determined. 53. Daniel Shelly vs. J. W. & N. R. Barclay. Rule to show cause why judgment should not be opened. 54. Altoona city vs. Joseph Sproat. Case stated. 55. Commonwealth for use J. Brotherline vs. Josiah A. Border. Rule to show cause why judgment should not be entered for want of sufficient affidavit of defense. 56. Susan McMullen's administrator vs. Thomas H. Greevy. Rule to show cause why judgment should not be opened. 57. A. Keough for use of F. Kuhn vs. Catharine McDermott. Rule to show cause why sequestrator should not be appointed. 58. John M. Black's administrator vs. J. F. Milliken. Rule on Sheriff to return his writ. 59. Rule to show cause why farm of Colonel Jack should not be reannexed to Blair township for school purposes. 60. Commonwealth vs. Frank Bailey. Threats. 61. Commonwealth vs. Jane Burkhardt. Threats. 62. Commonwealth vs. Charles Haid. Threats. 63. Commonwealth vs. Wellington Duncan. Threats. 64. Commonwealth vs. Thomas Burley. Desertion. 65. Commonwealth vs. Robert Mansfield. Threats. 66. Commonwealth vs. Miles McGuire. Threats. 67. Commonwealth vs. John McBride. Threats. 68. George Sipes and Frank Sipes. Threats. FROM HOLLIDAYSBURG. Mr. S. R. Abbott bagged sixteen rabbits and five pheasants during a little hunt to the head of Blair creek. Mr. O. P. Hewitt and Miss Hannah Holliday are Hollidaysburg's delegates to the Presbyterian Sunday School Convention that meets at Tyrone on December 2. George K. Mullin, Esq., of the St. Cloud Hotel, Philadelphia, arrived in our town yesterday on his annual fall hunting tour. We expect a deer roast in ours on Thanksgiving day. J. P. Stewart and Christ. McFarlane, of Hollidaysburg; Dr. T. H. White and Andy J. Patterson, of Williamsburg, and James H. Patterson, of Yellow Springs, with several more genial sports, are hunting on the Beaver Dam mountains. Another of their big annual thanksgiving dinners will be served at their cabin. Detective Albert Sturtzman reports that he was attacked by three men on Monday night when returning from the New Orleans Minstrels. He says that when he approached the east end of the bridge, a man stepped up and commanded him to hold up his hands and deliver his money, which he agreed to do, at the same time striking the man a blow that sent him to mud. The other two received the same treatment, and then the athletic Albert, who had just been assisting the minstrels and taking lessons, jumped over their bodies and proceeded without further detention to his home. Letter List. ALTOONA, Pa., November 17. - Following is the official list of letters remaining uncalled for in the Altoona postoffice November 17, 1879. If not called for within four weeks they will be sent to the dead letter office. To obtain any of these letters personal application should be made, giving date of list: LADIES. Bennett, Annie Marshall, Eliza Brantner, Katie Marks, Ella Boyers, Mrs. Mely Morgan, Alice Baish, Mrs. Maggie Ma?kin, Abbie Broombaugh, Sophia B. McNedy, Mrs. Annie Brock, Rose O'Friel, Nancy Clabaugh, Mrs. L. A. Piper, Mary Alice Cassiday, Hannah Patterson, A. J. Doyle, Mrs. Mary E. Ruggles, Mrs. Sarah Howser, Annie Slogenhop, Mrs. Lizzie Hockenbury, Elizabeth Slogenhop, Mrs. Mary Hartle, Mrs. Mary Simonton, M. J. Kirkpatrick, Amanda Sweeny, Sarah Ann McClelland, Susan J. Wills, Mrs. Catharine McConnell, Lydia Wagner, Nettie B. McCummins, Mary E. Wilson, M. L. Miller, Nettie Walter, Mary Marvin, Dollie Weaver, Sallie GENTLEMEN. Black, S. Maguire, Thomas Berryhill, William Martin, Thomas F. Barclay, William Metz, Sammy Cowan, G. D. McPhalin, R. Cramer, Dave Morgan, Reuben Dawvis [sic], Rev. M. Miles, John - 2 Eshelman, J. D. Mack, John Fahnestock, Oliver McHale, M. Gleichert, Fred O'Friel, Michael S. Hughes, John D. Ross, T. R. Kay, Thomas Rodgers, W. H. Lytle, J. A. Tause, Archie McEntire, Daniel Turner, G. S. Miller, Willie Wilson, William J. Morgan, William L. T. B. PATTON, Postmaster. CITY AND COUNTRY. Things Briefly Told. A letter addressed to "Mrs. A. M. Harber, Houtzdale, Pa.," is held at the postoffice for postage. The second-class freight agency at Rodman on the Hollidaysburg and Morrison Cove railroads has been re-established and J. King McLanahan appointed thereat. Train Agent Hamilton, of the Hollidaysburg branch train (Knepper's), went about his duties with a lighter heart and a more joyous step than usual. There was a brand new daughter in the case. Dennis Meehan, who was arrested while talking about the city on Monday evening by Officer Fettinger, was yesterday morning given by the Mayor one hour in which to stamp the Altoona mud from his feet. The young man Hylands, of Frankstown township, who attempted to end all things sublunary with himself a few days ago by feeling for his jugular with a razor and was placed in the almshouse, will recover from his rash act. In about ten days or two weeks the Sun will shine daily as an afternoon paper, with William P. Furey, Esq., editor. The local editor has not been fixed, though several gentlemen are named in connection therewith. Mr. Furey has the ability to make a racy and readable paper. It is a matter of regret to the many friends of Mrs. Tinker, wife of Mr. J. H. Tinker, of this city, that the lady has been compelled to return to Philadelphia to her physician, Dr. W. Goodell, for medical treatment. It is hoped that she may be able to return soon perfectly restored. It is said there was a caucus at the house of Sheriff-elect Bell last Sunday, and after the discussion of an excellent dinner and a full interchange of opinion it was unanimously agreed that Mr. John T. Patton, of this city, should shoulder the duties of Deputy Sheriff under the new officer. The young man who was hauled to the lock-up in a wagon on Monday by the Chief of Police from the railroad company's freight depot was named Hays Holder. He belonged to Spruce Creek, Huntingdon county. His lower lip was somewhat cut, supposed to have been done by a fall. The Mayor sent him home after he cleaned the cell he had occupied in the lock up. Stealing Goods from a Store Front. While the salesman at "Yank" Sailley's store at Ninth street and Eighth avenue were busily engaged indoors on Monday evening about 6 o'clock some unknown parties passed by and picked up a large piece of table-linen goods that had just been received and which was lying on a box in front of the store. The thieves succeeded in getting away with the property, which was valued at about $7. Coroner Humes Wins a Suit for Fees. Coroner Humes and Martin Bell, Esq., of Hollidaysburg, attorney for the County Commissioners, were before Alderman O'Toole yesterday afternoon. Mr. Humes had brought suit against the county for fees due him and Mr. Bell was present to resist the claim. Mr. Mervine was to represent the Coroner, but he was behind the time, and the case was settled before he arrived. Quite an amusing scene occurred between the lawyer and the Coroner, in the course of which the latter said that he did not see why his claim should be disputed as long as the Commissioners paid out without growling premiums on coons, foxes, skunks, and the like. The argument used was of such force that the Hollidaysburg man lost his case, and the Alderman gave judgment for the full amount of fees claimed by the Coroner. Where the Watch of an Unknown "Drunk" Is. A man who was found in an intoxicated condition at Seventeenth street and Ninth avenue on Monday night had a watch in his possession which was dangling carelessly from his person. The man - whose name is unknown - was picked up by some of the employes of Gamble's grocery store, at that corner, and was laid on a wheelbarrow, where he remained when the store was closed about 9 P.M. His watch was taken charge of by the people in the store, and it is yet in their possession. They wish to make this fact public in the hope that the unknown man, if he should observe this notice, will understand what has become of his property and know where to call for it. Michael O'Neil's Horse and Wagon and "Taste o' Gin." The horse of Mr. Michael O'Neil, a "fine ould Irish gintleman," started away from in front of the Globe Hotel yesterday afternoon and meandered slowly up Thirteenth street until it reached Eleventh avenue, when Policeman Allen espied the beast and temporarily confiscated the whole concern. Michael, who is an innocent looking old gentleman, presently appeared in front of the Globe and found the "team" gone. Casting his eyes up the street he espied it, and made haste to follow. Officer Allen with mock gravity read the old fellow the law on the subject and asked him where he had been. Michael replied: "I was in the Globe takin' a quiet taste o' gin!" After a few more words of warning from the officer which seemed to impress Michael mightily he crawled onto the wagon, muttering anathemas on the head of the horse, which he called a "darned old fool" for running away, and wishing that he had "the old mare back agin'!" Trouble in the Levan Hose Company. The Levan Hose Company, recently organized in the Sixth ward, has temporarily "busted," so to speak. The members of the company held a meeting last night and every one of them resigned membership. The hose carriage was obtained through E. Ritchie, who was elected Chief Director of the company, and he claims to have an interest in it to such an extent that he can control its movements. The members of the company who were seen by a reporter last evening stated that the Chief Director was not at all popular with the citizens of the Sixth ward, by whom the company expected to be sustained. The general opinion was that it would be better if the Chief Director and the company should hereafter be separate institutions, and hence the action of the men, who intimate that they will at once proceed to the organization of a new company, minus the services of the Chief Director, and steps will be taken for the purchase of a hose carriage. Personal. To the Citizens of Altoona: We, the entire membership of the Levan Hose Company, recently organized, hereby tender our resignations, to take effect immediately. We do this on account of the actions of the leader and the coolness of the citizens of the Sixth war, as shown to him. We intend to organize a new company in a short time, under a new name. James M. Morrow, Secretary. 100 Men Wanted To work on the grading of the extension of the Bell's Gap railroad. For further particulars inquire of R. G. Ford, Superintendent, Bell's Mills, or Thomas Seabrook, engineer, Lloydsville, Pa.